ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1919
"The Exiles" and "The Boy Orator of Zepata City" from "The Exiles," copyright, 1894, by Harper & Brothers.
"The Other Woman" from "Gallagher," copyright, 1891, by Charles Scribner's Sons; "On the Fever Ship," "The Lion and the Unicorn," and "The Last Ride Together" from "The Lion and the Unicorn," copyright, 1899, by Charles Scribner's Sons; "Miss Delamar's Understudy" from "Cinderella," copyright, 1896, by Charles Scribner's Sons; "The Reporter Who Made Himself King" from "Stories for Boys," copyright, 1891, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
TO MY FRIEND
J. DAVIS BRODHEAD
THE FIRST GLIMPSE OF DAVIS
Dick was twenty-four years old when he came into the smoking-room of the Victoria Hotel, in London, after midnight one July night—he was dressed as a Thames boatman.